Midway through Top Gun, the highest-grossing movie of 1986, there’s a scene where the film briefly abandons all…

With everything going on right now in the world, you could be forgiven for missing today’s perhaps most important…

Tom Cruise, continuing to defy the inevitabilities of age and gravity, is back as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the new…

Kelly McGillis’ Charlie Blackwood pushed Maverick’s heartbeat into the danger zone in Top Gun, but don’t expect the…

Tom Cruise brought his radiant, thetan-free smile to Comic Con today to premiere the first trailer for Top Gun:…

Tom Skerritt has starred in some of the most iconic movies ever made—M*A*S*H, Alien, Steel Magnolias, Top Gun. He…

Nobody gets Tom Cruise better than screenwriter and director Christopher McQuarrie, at least to the extent that…

Actors have an annoying habit of aging, which can cause problems when Hollywood decides to go back and make sequels…

Suggesting that he, himself, might be rocketing recklessly forward into some kind of “zone of danger,” Kenny Loggins…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged—to paraphrase Jane Austen on the topic of ’80s action blockbusters—that any…

It was just over a year ago that Tom Cruise insisted a sequel to his classic 1986 exercise in homoeroticism and Val…

Film has been used as a vehicle to increase the popularity of particular songs as far back as the black-and-white…

Notify Kenny Loggins and get the volleyball nets ready: The Tom Cruise-starring Top Gun sequel, Maverick, has…

Tom Cruise is continuing to use his press tour for The Mummy to talk about the sequel to Top Gun that’s apparently…

It looks like Tom Cruise wasn’t kidding when he revealed that Top…

If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for the days of elementary school music class, when you and a bunch of other kids…

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“Once I open the vault,” Jerry Seinfeld once said, “it ceases to be a vault.” Such quandaries do not seem to be an…

This week’s question comes from staff writer Alex McCown: